weird but true only because of the myth this temple had for its origin. Legend says that Lord Krishna lived in this village in disguise during his reign as the emperor. He chose to live in that way in return for the love and affection this village showed towards him when he was found hurt after getting washed to the shore losing a fierce battle in the sea.
Wednesday, 17 July 2013
Tuesday, 16 July 2013
Not Exactly !!
There was genuine laughter in the room the moment Nisha's boss heard her say that she needed a break. Nisha could not understand the reason behind his reaction. She rarely fails to figure out her boss's intentions as he always hints her that they both think a like. "Excuse me Sirji. Was I being funny?" Nisha asked him in doubt. "Not exactly!!. It's only that you waited the whole day to tell me this that too when you have so much work in line, with the new interns in place and other improvements being done in the existing article sections, I hardly see any space we have got to take even a half day break." her Boss spoke diligently with a clear tone, politely rejecting her leave request but Nisha was not in mood to back off so she remained silent for a moment and then spoke "It's a two day break, not a half-day, precisely this weekend." And for the first time her boss rose his head to make an eye contact with Nisha. The phone at his desk started ringing but he was least bothered to answer it. He didn't take off his sight from Nisha. It was Nisha's turn to break the silence so she picked up the receiver and answered the call "Hello, Dr.Tyagi's Office... Ya but he is in an important meeting. Could you wait for a while and give a ring sometime later. Thank you". Dr. Tyagi was least interested to know who the caller was but Nisha wasn't interested either to keep the message to herself so she said "It's from home. Aunty ji was asking for you." He then put his head back into the article he was proof reading and spoke in an authoritative tone "We had already discussed that we might have to work even on Sundays for a month or so." Nisha replied without any delay "That is why I said two days." He was slowly losing his temper but kept his cool and raising his voice said "I am not approving your leave" for which Nisha conveniently replied in a soft tone "But I am taking a break this weekend." Dr. Tyagi stopped everything he was doing, stood up and looking straight at Nisha said "Look Nisha. today is my wedding anniversary. Your aunt must have called to check whether I would be early today to take her out for dinner. We both know that that's not going to happen since it had already passed 9.00 pm. We are running a newspaper here, we are not doing a public service. This is our bread & butter and sometimes we do have to keep aside our personal life.." his speech was interrupted by Nisha as she smiled and said "You did" Dr.Tyagi had a question on his face as his flow was struck abruptly. Nisha did not wait further and so clearing his confusion she said "You did take her out for dinner for your wedding anniversary." After a brief pause she continued "I booked the reservation for you both" Dr. Tyagi looked down at his calendar checking the date. "It's the same date but last month" Nisha ended her statement with a sense of joy but her boss sat back on his chair cursing his memory in a sensible manner. "Can't keep a track of my own life and I call myself an editor of a newspaper" Nisha immediately jumped in to stop himself from humiliating further as she had never intended to insult him with her wits. "Sir ji, I am no one to comment on your capabilities but I am pretty sure you would remember what was the main headlines for the same date last month" Involuntarily Dr. Tyagi's voice answered "India's route to Nuclear Energy" She continued "and a month before that". "Politics has a new source of income through FDI" he answered immediately yet unable to crack Nisha's concern. "this is exactly what I am talking about Sirji. You have got so much involved with this newspaper, which is no doubt your life's best achievement , that its ok sometimes to let go off unimportant things. Dr.Tyagi was now smiling knowing how simple it is for a human to find an excuse for almost everything. "Who am I kidding anyways. Nisha I know you made your point but..." he stopped and he didn't wish to continue further as they both knew what the other end of the sentence was about. He went back to his work and continued to read adjusting his spectacles. Nisha stood their silently for a moment and then slowly began to speak "I do have a life beyond this office Sirji, and sometimes I need to remind myself the same." He didn't respond. "We still have four more days for a friday and I will see if I can squeeze in this weekend's work, if possible spend an extra hour because I never compromise in the quality of my work. He didn't respond even then. She waited there for him to answer but he didn't give any such indication. She turned back and was about to leave his cabin when he spoke out her name. "Nisha" She didn't turn back but stood there waiting for his answer. "Don't make me a bad boss. I don't want you to work late." It was her turn to remain silent this time. She didn't speak any. After a brief pause he said "Alright!! I will ask Arjun to support you through this week and if you need my help let me know I will stay back and we will finish all pending items from your end by this friday." She didn't speak any even then. Dr.Tyagi ended the conversation with "you can go now. Go home for today. you have a lot to do from tomorrow." Nisha left his cabin with a gentle nod agreeing to his concern. 'What just happened' her mind immediately bugged her the moment she stepped out of the office. 'we are going to DakshinKhand this weekend' Nisha replied with a broad smile and a sense of achievement that her leave got approved. 'I know where we are going you dumbass but how did you convince that old junkie?' for which Nisha answered 'Nothing. I just didn't get convinced to his words when he tried. Isn't it that simple?'. 'ya but....' and before her mind could throw any more questions Nisha cooled it down saying 'Enough now, let's go home. There is a lot more to plan'
The next day she woke, freshed up, enjoyed her hobby and immediately sat down with a map in front of her. The one's marked in red were the places she wished to see and the ones marked in green were the places which she already did. The last time she went on an adventure like this was almost two years back so there was genuine excitement in her eyes knowing that she would be visiting Dakshin Khand soon. It's a place less known to people, not very popular among common people but is well known for it's cleanest beaches. Being less inhabitant and untouched by modernisation, Dakshin Khand was a peaceful world altogether. There is also a temple of Lord Krishna in this coastal town which was well known for its unique structure especially the main shrine. Nisha opened her laptop and started researching on how to get there. She first found out the safest possible route for her which involved changing two buses.She lived in Simhakranthi, South India's fastest growing metropolitan city situated at the Southern tip of Kerala. The first bus would take her to a city called Gruhan which was the closest she could get from Simhakranthi to Dakshin Khand . From there she was confident to get a direct bus to dakshin khand. She searched if she could get any decent places to stay and once she got all the information, she scrolled down on the map to see how she could get Rishi to that Place without having him travel too much. After checking all the possible routes she found out that the shortest route for Rishi to reach Dakshin Khand would need him to take three buses. The first one to reach the nearest city of Kothapuri from his village Bhairavapuram. The second one connecting Kothapuri to Gruhana and third one to obviously reach Dakshin Khand. Noting all the required details, she left to office.
She knew that the next 4 days would not be easy. She will have to handle a lot of pressure managing multiple things so as to earn that peaceful weekend. Arjun was waiting at her desk as she walked in. She neither noticed his smile greeting her in a low voice nor cared to greet him back. In fact the moment she sat in her seat she looked straight into his eyes and asked " where you waiting for me to give you instructions on what to be done?" Arjun's uncomfortable smile vanished and with a confident gesture he replied waving his hands "the articles list is there on your table. All the work has been rightly assigned to the apprentices. Journalists have been notified about the localities they would be visiting today. Gossip section has been scrapped out and we still need to finalise the replacement of that section with 'Know you country' or 'Change is the need' " Nisha listened to all of that carefully and acknowledged him with a nod. after looking at both the ideas she pointed out at the file which was titled 'know your country' and said "Replace gossip section with 'Know your country' we had this sorted out yesterday evening, I did not get time to communicate it to you" and handing over the file to him she said " Do not disturb me for the next three hours, there is a lot of work to do. Bug me only if you think I am absolutely needed to resolve anything." Arjun nodded and left to his desk as Nisha opened her laptop and jumped into her work ignoring everything around her all she could hear is her thoughts and the war of wards dashing in to form a sentence as she started typing.
Somewhere in the afternoon as she was filling up the checklist for the city section of the next day, she noticed something on her notice board. A small piece of paper pinned specifically to remind her about something. Just when she was about to reach the paper, Arjun's voice interfered her. "What ?" She never used to frame a reasonable sentence when talking to Arjun. That's the comfort level both of them shared. "These are ready' He handed over a bunch of papers asking her to have a quick look before sending it to the editor's office. Nisha wasn't surprised to see the quantum of papers in her hand. "Did you check all of them?" she asked him looking at the papers. " they are quite impressive. few of them were done by one of the brightest apprentices of this year's batch" Arjun replied proudly. "Then that's a concern" Nisha sighed and started looking at the papers. Arjun couldn't clearly understand her reaction but stood there waiting for her to give him some clue for making such blatant remark. She pulled out the one written by the apprentice and started reading. After finishing a para she looked back at the notice board and pulled out the paper in which was written 'Call Rishi'. She then remembered that she had kept this last night as a note to call and know Rishi's decision. she immediately took the receiver and started dialing Rishi's number. She continued reading when her call was yet to get answered by Rishi and just then she found a big mistake in the sentence formation. An adverb was misplaced unintentionally which would ofcourse make the sentence right but would change the meaning in the article's actual context. She completely forgot about the call and started shouting on Arjun for not being extra careful in filtering out such mistakes. She never liked Arjun facing down agreeing to his mistakes, so she immediately diverted the topic and started talking to Rishi. She then told Rishi that they would be travelling the following weekend and that she would call him in the evening to explain him the travel plan and the budget requirements. She didn't spend much time in the phone conversation as she knew she couldn't spare much time for her personal life during her office hours. She cooled down for a moment and spoke in a soft voice to Arjun " I know you are trying hard to give them the best opportunities but also keep in mind to be extra cautious when extracting work from them. We are a brand and we need to live up to consistently. Don't forget that. Leave these papers with me. I will handle them." Arjun nodded silently. "Anything else?" she asked turning towards her laptop."Nothing as such" he replied. There was no response from Nisha. Only the noise of the keys from her laptop's keyboard signalling Arjun to get back to his desk
The next day she woke, freshed up, enjoyed her hobby and immediately sat down with a map in front of her. The one's marked in red were the places she wished to see and the ones marked in green were the places which she already did. The last time she went on an adventure like this was almost two years back so there was genuine excitement in her eyes knowing that she would be visiting Dakshin Khand soon. It's a place less known to people, not very popular among common people but is well known for it's cleanest beaches. Being less inhabitant and untouched by modernisation, Dakshin Khand was a peaceful world altogether. There is also a temple of Lord Krishna in this coastal town which was well known for its unique structure especially the main shrine. Nisha opened her laptop and started researching on how to get there. She first found out the safest possible route for her which involved changing two buses.She lived in Simhakranthi, South India's fastest growing metropolitan city situated at the Southern tip of Kerala. The first bus would take her to a city called Gruhan which was the closest she could get from Simhakranthi to Dakshin Khand . From there she was confident to get a direct bus to dakshin khand. She searched if she could get any decent places to stay and once she got all the information, she scrolled down on the map to see how she could get Rishi to that Place without having him travel too much. After checking all the possible routes she found out that the shortest route for Rishi to reach Dakshin Khand would need him to take three buses. The first one to reach the nearest city of Kothapuri from his village Bhairavapuram. The second one connecting Kothapuri to Gruhana and third one to obviously reach Dakshin Khand. Noting all the required details, she left to office.
She knew that the next 4 days would not be easy. She will have to handle a lot of pressure managing multiple things so as to earn that peaceful weekend. Arjun was waiting at her desk as she walked in. She neither noticed his smile greeting her in a low voice nor cared to greet him back. In fact the moment she sat in her seat she looked straight into his eyes and asked " where you waiting for me to give you instructions on what to be done?" Arjun's uncomfortable smile vanished and with a confident gesture he replied waving his hands "the articles list is there on your table. All the work has been rightly assigned to the apprentices. Journalists have been notified about the localities they would be visiting today. Gossip section has been scrapped out and we still need to finalise the replacement of that section with 'Know you country' or 'Change is the need' " Nisha listened to all of that carefully and acknowledged him with a nod. after looking at both the ideas she pointed out at the file which was titled 'know your country' and said "Replace gossip section with 'Know your country' we had this sorted out yesterday evening, I did not get time to communicate it to you" and handing over the file to him she said " Do not disturb me for the next three hours, there is a lot of work to do. Bug me only if you think I am absolutely needed to resolve anything." Arjun nodded and left to his desk as Nisha opened her laptop and jumped into her work ignoring everything around her all she could hear is her thoughts and the war of wards dashing in to form a sentence as she started typing.
Somewhere in the afternoon as she was filling up the checklist for the city section of the next day, she noticed something on her notice board. A small piece of paper pinned specifically to remind her about something. Just when she was about to reach the paper, Arjun's voice interfered her. "What ?" She never used to frame a reasonable sentence when talking to Arjun. That's the comfort level both of them shared. "These are ready' He handed over a bunch of papers asking her to have a quick look before sending it to the editor's office. Nisha wasn't surprised to see the quantum of papers in her hand. "Did you check all of them?" she asked him looking at the papers. " they are quite impressive. few of them were done by one of the brightest apprentices of this year's batch" Arjun replied proudly. "Then that's a concern" Nisha sighed and started looking at the papers. Arjun couldn't clearly understand her reaction but stood there waiting for her to give him some clue for making such blatant remark. She pulled out the one written by the apprentice and started reading. After finishing a para she looked back at the notice board and pulled out the paper in which was written 'Call Rishi'. She then remembered that she had kept this last night as a note to call and know Rishi's decision. she immediately took the receiver and started dialing Rishi's number. She continued reading when her call was yet to get answered by Rishi and just then she found a big mistake in the sentence formation. An adverb was misplaced unintentionally which would ofcourse make the sentence right but would change the meaning in the article's actual context. She completely forgot about the call and started shouting on Arjun for not being extra careful in filtering out such mistakes. She never liked Arjun facing down agreeing to his mistakes, so she immediately diverted the topic and started talking to Rishi. She then told Rishi that they would be travelling the following weekend and that she would call him in the evening to explain him the travel plan and the budget requirements. She didn't spend much time in the phone conversation as she knew she couldn't spare much time for her personal life during her office hours. She cooled down for a moment and spoke in a soft voice to Arjun " I know you are trying hard to give them the best opportunities but also keep in mind to be extra cautious when extracting work from them. We are a brand and we need to live up to consistently. Don't forget that. Leave these papers with me. I will handle them." Arjun nodded silently. "Anything else?" she asked turning towards her laptop."Nothing as such" he replied. There was no response from Nisha. Only the noise of the keys from her laptop's keyboard signalling Arjun to get back to his desk
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